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I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
Wynton Marsalis
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Wynton Marsalis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
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Jazz Musician
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Wynton Learson Marsalis
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When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians.
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Ethics are more important than laws. Which means that the exact note is less important than the feeling of the note.
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It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find it chief amongst our agendas to teach our kids who we are as a nation and the battles we've had on this ground and how they've been successfully resolved. We can't enjoy the fruits of the labor of our ancestors.
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I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don't agree with the dominant mythology.
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Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
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Thank the good Lord for a job.
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Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.
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Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.
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New Orleans - the real New Orleans - is the soul of the country.
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We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all the innovation, and we have a tradition of great arts, great music.
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